In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

Privation by fraud.

Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.

Lat. Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue.

L. Fr. To waste.

A deprivation of dignity ; dismission from office. An ecclesiasticalcensure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There are two sorts by thecanon law,

A term for waste in the French law.

Reviling; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public.

In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., thedistance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related byconsanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins

L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 387.

Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it

In Spanish law. Surrender; release; abandonment; e. g., the act of an Insolvent in surrendering his property for the benefit of his creditors, of an heir in renouncing the succession, the abandonment

A taking of a solemn oath

L. Fr. In old English practice. Of well being; of form. The same as de bene esse. Britt. c. 39.

In French marine law. Abandonment Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ch. 17.

In Scotch law. To accuse. Delated, accused. Dclatit off arte and parte, accused of being accessary to. 3 How. St Tr. 425, 440.

In the civil law. An accusation or information.

An accuser; an informer; a sycophant.

In old English law. The reward of an informer. Whishaw.

To retard; obstruct; put off; hinder; interpose obstacles; as, when it is saidthat a conveyance was made to “hinder and delay creditors.” Mercantile Co. v. Arnold,108 Ga. 449. 34 S. E. 176;